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It’s your fault, baby boomers: You did not pass your passion for golf on to your children. The result? A serious fall-off in golf’s popularity — including 6 million fewer golfers in the U.S. since 2002, a 25-per-cent drop.

Patrice Gilbert was convinced that the free network of online time management and communication services for physicians he launched four years ago would be a hit with Canadian doctors. But with 10,000 of the country’s 75,000-plus physicians having already joined — including 3,000 in the past month — even he is amazed by the popularity of PetalMD.

Now you Tungle, soon you won’t. Try Doodle-ing instead. And wait for Blackberry 10. Research in Motion, the struggling Ontario telecom giant that makes the BlackBerry smartphone and Playbook tablet, said Tuesday it is shutting its Montreal-based social calendar application Tungle.me on Dec. 3.

I recently got an email pitch from a public relations specialist that read something like this: “Hey Mitch, I work with Lame Corp. I’m a big fan of your blog and your newspaper articles. I know that you have written about our research before, so I’m attaching some new findings that I know you will find interesting.

SAN FRANCISCO – Five years ago, Justin Edmund arrived at Carnegie Mellon University, a floppy-haired freshman, with artistic talent and dreams of joining a venerable design firm like IDEO or Frog. But during his sophomore year, a recruiting pitch from a Facebook employee turned his head, and prompted a detour of his ambitions.

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